[access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:16:20 +0100
Glen this sounds like an amazing system, I want it now! *smile* and yes I
will be giving it a whirl at ?25 a month approx for a rolling contract.
Sounds reasonable if what I've read is all present and correct.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Glenn Tookey
Sent: 27 April 2010 18:08
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
The answer is yes, once you have trained it to recognise something then
whenever it sees it again (and the phone is in recognition mode) then it
will announce the title that you have given to the object. It does not
matter where you are in the world as long as you have a data connection back
to your base station library it will give you the information. The response
is very quick.
If you are in a place a long way from your base station and want to train an
object you can do it locally on the phone and attach a voice tag from the
mobile phone. This is transferred back to your base station. Next time it
sees the object, it announce it using your own voice tag rather than the
system voice that it uses for tags typed in on the base station. So, you go
into the hotel and tag your hotel door number (remember it has to be
something unique, every hotel door is the same apart from the number) and
then just have to know where to point it at the hotel door to find out
which is yours. You do not have to take a picture, it is real time video, so
you just move the phone about until it makes the recognition. Not foolpoof,
but dammed clever really!
Glenn
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Amro Bilal
Sent: 27 April 2010 17:27
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
Quite, George.
A question about the product itself. I gathered from Glen's email that
LookTel can be trained to recognise places as well as objects. Is that
right? And if it is, then I can, say, take it with me overseas and train it
to recognise the number on my hotel room door? Have I got this right or I'm
fantasising now?
If that level of recognition can be achieved with LookTel, and LookTel can
be used basically anywhere that has a mobile phone network coverage, then
IMHO this product has a lot of potential.
Cheers,
Amro
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
George Bell
Sent: 27 April 2010 1:02 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
Quite simply because what may be right for the American market, is very
often not suitable for the U.K. market, even given the fact that 200 blind
users in America have been working with the developers for the past year or
so.
And having now seen the LookTel myself, I can quite understand. This is why
Glen Tookey, quite understandably, is regarding the U.K.
version as an "Alpha", rather than "Beta". Many things do have to be
Anglicised.
Suffice to say that when Glen and his team feel the product is ready for the
UK market, it will be revealed, and will not necessarily be the final
version either, thus allowing any changes potential users may deem
essential.
All I will add is that what I saw was most impressive, to the point where
having kept out of the phone market, I'm sorely tempted. It won't suit
everyone by any means. If you have a sophisticated phone now, the extras
offered may, or indeed may not, tempt you to upgrade.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Peter Beasley
Sent: 27 April 2010 09:54
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: LookTel smartphone software
Why are they only testing Alpha software in this country because thee-mail I
forwarded referred to Beta software.
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